Messy Mind

Connect the dots

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A visual pin board for organizing evidence and data. Drag and drop documents, images, and PDFs onto a cork board canvas—Messy Mind automatically extracts dates, names, emails, phone numbers, and IP addresses. Draw labeled connections, switch between freeform and timeline views, and filter with precision.

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Why Messy Mind?

Entity Extraction

Drop in a document and Messy Mind automatically detects dates, phone numbers, IP addresses, emails, and names. Build your knowledge graph without tedious manual entry—the NLP does the heavy lifting.

Cork Board Aesthetic

Freeform drag-and-drop canvas with a detective-style cork board theme. Draw labeled, color-coded connections between nodes. The visual approach reveals patterns that spreadsheets hide.

Multi-Format Import

Text notes, images, PDFs, and Word documents—Messy Mind handles it all. Built-in OCR extracts text from images. Import your evidence from any source and normalize it into a searchable, connected whole.

Features

Visual Pin Board

Freeform drag-and-drop canvas with cork board aesthetic. Create spatial relationships that mirror your mental model.

Entity Detection

Auto-detect dates, phone numbers, IP addresses, emails, and names from text and documents with NLP.

Multiple View Modes

Switch between freeform canvas, organized tree, and timeline views. See events chronologically or spatially.

Smart Connections

Draw labeled, color-coded connections between nodes. Visualize relationships with custom labels and directions.

Powerful Search

Full-text search with fuzzy matching. Stackable filters by type, connection, date range, tags, and metadata.

Multi-Board Support

Create and manage multiple investigation boards. Keep different cases or research projects organized separately.

For Researchers & Investigators

Whether you're researching a complex topic, investigating a case, or just trying to understand a tangled web of information, Messy Mind gives you the tools to make sense of it all.

Import your evidence - PDFs, screenshots, documents, data exports. Messy Mind extracts the entities and lets you build a knowledge graph visually. See who connects to whom, what happened when, and where the gaps are.

All data stays local. Your investigation is your business. No cloud sync, no third-party access, no data leaving your machine.

System Requirements

Desktop

Windows 10+, macOS 10.14+, or Linux
4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB recommended)
500 MB disk space + project data
Works completely offline